STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island community is rallying around a West Brighton woman diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer.
Colleen Valcarcel, 55, is recovering from brain surgery and was diagnosed after a biopsy with a grade 4 glioma — the most advanced and fastest-growing type of brain cancer.
What her family initially believed were routine health issues quickly escalated to emergency surgery March 17 at Richmond University Hospital, when doctors removed a golf ball–sized malignant tumor from her brain…